12 August 2015

Yellow with a splash of red

The first of the new E400s for Plymouth Citybus have arrived in a very nice bright yellow livery:

Seen at Milehouse shortly after arrival:

New for Plymouth Citybus

then later on a short test run around the City Centre...

New for Plymouth Citybus

New for Plymouth Citybus

Four lined up at Milehouse: WJ65BYN WJ65BYO WJ65BYP WJ65BYR

Yellow Flash line up

 

Meanwhile 501 is now out of Blue Flash and out and about in service in plain red. Its expected to receive Red Flash logos later.

Plymouth Citybus 501

16 comments:

  1. No pay rise for Citybus staff this year - too much money spent on paint!

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  2. They are actually E40D's not E400's, please get your facts right

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    1. Enviro 400 and Enviro 40Ds are the same bus. i dont know any different in them

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    2. Does it actually matter what it is? A bus is a bus, I would agree with Graham that they are E400s!

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    3. May I suggest that before you make a bold statement about someone getting their facts right, that you go onto the Alexander Dennis web site where you will see the current models are Enviro 400 and Enviro 400 MMC.

      The version of an Enviro 400 will be designated E40D when it is a conventional Diesel bus or E40H when it is the Hybrid version.

      So they are as Graham correctly said Enviro 400's.

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    4. Thanks everyone! I was referring mainly to the bodywork being Enviro 400's hence E400 which does seem to be recognised as such by many people. I believe the chassis is officially the Alexander Dennis Trident E40D.

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  3. They are actually classed rightly as E40D's & E40H's & the single deckers are classed as E20D's, this is ADL's standard policy for the range & has been for a while

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    1. ADL market the double deck as the Enviro 400, the demonstrator tells us this!
      https://www.flickr.com/photos/apt358/20004224456/in/dateposted-public/

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  4. It is great to see a major investment in new high quality vehicles by Plymouth Citybus. However, what a dreadful colour scheme this yellow livery is. Hopefully it will look a lot better once the branding is applied. Even so they probably won't look as good as the Blue and Red Flash vehicles. More like a fleet of school buses...!

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    1. From the images I have seen these should look really good in the new yellow flash livery. Better than the red version in my opinion

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    2. Nothing wrong with Yellow Buses - but maybe I'm biased given my home town is Bournemouth!

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    3. Buses are never going to look their best in allover unrelieved yellow (or allover unrelieved anything else for that matter). Wait and see what they look like when the Flash branding is applied.

      And I do like yellow buses - apart from Bournemouth, Reading Buses uses yellow (with orange) successfully for its route 26-branded buses.

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  5. Personally I would have preferred standard Citybus livery with route branding instead of all the flash routes. But we never know. Maybe Stagecoach will bring some branding to Plymouth!

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    1. I thought Stagecoach already had - going to Torquay and back!

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  6. A vast improvement on the last bus to have a yellow livery!!, a fine type of bus but sadly way past its usefulness.

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  7. 104 is now on the road in Blue Flash worded for City Centre - Derriford - Woolwell/Tamerton.

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